After spending the day getting oriented in our new studio space for Rome, thanks to Iowa State, we (Alex, Adam, Lindsey and I) had a day as tourists, going to the Colosseum and the Roman Forum. We don't go to see these things as a group because they cost too much, and they are always too flooded with tourists.
The poppies are blooming in Rome (and I'm probably allergic to them). This is in front of Teatro Romano
Outside of the Colosseum, you can pay to get your photo taken with the gladiators, we did not.
Inside the Colosseum, people from all over the world are crowded together to see the ruins...meanwhile I have a panic attack...
A view of the Roman Forum from the Colosseum
The Colosseum Museum. The writing on the back wall says:
"Having made the triomphator mount a chariot, with his face smeared with red dye or cinnabar in the place of blood to conceal his healthy glow, they deck him with bracelets, they encircle his head with a laurel wreath and give him a laurel branch to hold up in his right hand. They also place a crown of some sort of material on his head, on which are incised his achievements and his experiences."
-Tzetzes Letters 97, p. 142, 1ff. Leone
A view of the Museum installation
something cool that was somewhere at one point in time...this is the most descriptive I can be...
Bust of Julius Caesar
Lindsey and I fight to the death in the Colosseum
Then we made our way over to the Palatine
Augustus' home in the Palatine...not too shabby to have your own mini-Colosseum, horse track, and stage in your backyard that overlooks Circus Maximus
The dwelling for Augustus' wife
Circus Maximus (what is now a big green space)
Down in the Roman Forum (Foro Romano)
If we lived back in the day of the Foro Roman, we would look sophisticated...like this.
Roman Forum and Colosseum. Note how the Cyprus trees on the other side of the sidewalk mimic the columns in the forum.
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